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And So The Judge Returns: Blood Meridian Workshop at the University of Warwick
No full textPulitzer Prize winning author Cormac McCarthy’s work has become required reading in literary criticism, and yet no syllabus appears to provision for the in-depth discussion his texts, particularly the 1985 novel, Blood Meridian: Or, the Evening Redness in the West, require. The ‘And So the Judge Returns: Blood Meridian Workshop’ at the University of Warwick emerged from the idea to provide a space that facilitates such a discussion. Designed to bring academics and non-academics of all ages together in one space, the workshop quickly developed from a small, Warwick-based event into a live-streamed and recorded international conference with a significant audience based in the United States. The workshop reaffirmed the interest in the novel’s enigmatic antagonist Judge Holden and motifs such as the landscape and violence. Less traditional ideas of the judge were also discussed, such as reading the judge as fraud or as weary of chaos and perpetual violence. The workshop succeeded in creating a space to share thoughts and ideas and continue the academic discourse on the novel. Speakers included Dr Nicholas Monk and Dr David Holloway, both established McCarthy critics; Peter Josyph whose artistic engagement with McCarthy’s work and career his highly respected among critics; and Dr Dan O’Hara, expert in American Studies. Ronan Hatfull and Katja Laug represented the younger generation of McCarthy critics. Live-streaming also afforded insights into the academic discourse to the mostly non-academic online audience. The article provides a summary of the day’s events and the links to the edited recordings
Social distinction and the written word : two provincial case studies, Warwick and Draguignan, 1780-1820
No full textThis is a comparative study of two countries, England and France, two county towns,
Warwick and Draguignan, and two families of the trading-manufacturing sort. It
argues that, during the period around 1780-1820, the acquisition of a certain form of
education, which included an emphasis on fluent reading, writing, and grammar.
preferably Latin grammar, became as important as the acquisition of capital. This
cultural capital gave its new owners a self-perceived distinction which allowed them to
consider themselves and to be considered by others as different.
Even if local, regional, and national differences are taken into account, this
comparative study shows that this new perception developed as a transnational
phenomenon, a form of culture sallS jrolltieres, even during the times of enmity and
almost uninterrupted wars between Britain and France which characterise this period.
This process had begun earlier in the eighteenth century, when the idea of a public
opinion and its premise of equal interaction amongst its proponents was 'invented'; but
it was facilitated by the French Revolution with its legacy of the notion of equality, and
therefore of the importance of communication in forging democracy. The written word
was the chosen means to achieve this.
It is argued that this distinctive culture, in the production and consumption of which
women played a considerable part, gave voice and a social and political consciousness
to those who began to see themselves as the 'middle class'
‘The Life and Times of Uncle Warwick’
No full textRecently, I had the privilege of hosting a session in honour of Dr.
Warwick Bray at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, in San
Juan, Puerto Rico. The following is a forward to Pamela J. Smith’s interview which
introduces the reader to this wonderfully modest and endearingly understated man. His
modest nature is exemplified in the title for my introduction which comes from a letter
Warwick sent me in response to my request for his curriculum vitae – a document he
humourously paralleled to children’s book ‘The Life and Times of Uncle
Wiggley’
Macroecology and meiobenthos: Reply to Warwick (2014)
No full textWarwick (2014; Mar Ecol Prog Ser 505:295-298) suggests that my claim that the biology of marine metazoan benthos may scale continuously with body mass (Bett 2013; Mar Ecol Prog Ser 487:1-6) is an overstatement. His alternative hypothesis is that there is a ‘step-change’ in allometric relationships between the meio- and macrobenthos. I continue to propose that simple null hypotheses for standing stock size spectra and species size spectra of the metazoan benthos, consistent with metabolic theory and macroecology, offer parsimonious solutions. For standing stock and species size spectra I present field data that conform to these null hypotheses. Data from other studies, such as those suggested by Warwick (2014), may be difficult to place in the macroecological context, as those studies are constructed or presented in a different manner (e.g. they lack data on the number of individuals identified). I suggest that it may be useful to consider ‘evolutionary species size spectra’ separately from ‘macroecological species size spectra’. Both are valid testable hypotheses, and are not necessarily contradictory
The role of collective motion in examples of coarsening and self-assembly
No full textThe simplest prescription for building a patterned structure from its constituents is to add particles, one at a time, to an appropriate template. However, self-organizing molecular and colloidal systems in nature can evolve in much more hierarchical ways. Specifically, constituents (or clusters of constituents) may aggregate to form clusters (or clusters of clusters) that serve as building blocks for later stages of assembly. Here we evaluate the character and consequences of such collective motion in a set of prototypical assembly processes. We do so using computer simulations in which a system's capacity for hierarchical dynamics can be controlled systematically. By explicitly allowing or suppressing collective motion, we quantify its effects. We find that coarsening within a two dimensional attractive lattice gas (and an analogous off-lattice model in three dimensions) is naturally dominated by collective motion over a broad range of temperatures and densities. Under such circumstances, cluster mobility inhibits the development of uniform coexisting phases, especially when macroscopic segregation is strongly favored by thermodynamics. By contrast, the assembly of model viral capsids is not frustrated but is instead facilitated by collective moves, which promote the orderly binding of intermediates consisting of several monomers
The causal manipulation and Bayesian estimation of chain event graphs
No full textDiscrete Bayesian Networks (BNs) have been very successful as
a framework both for inference and for expressing certain causal hypotheses. In this paper we present a class of graphical models called
the chain event graph (CEG) models, that generalises the class of discrete BN models. This class is suited for representing conditional independence and sample space structures of asymmetric models. It retains many useful properties of discrete BNs, in particular admitting
conjugate estimation. It provides a flexible and expressive framework
for representing and analysing the implications of causal hypotheses,
expressed in terms of the effects of a manipulation of the generating
underlying system.We prove that, as for a BN, identifiability analyses
of causal effects can be performed through examining the topology
of the CEG graph, leading to theorems analogous to the Backdoor
theorem for the BN
Luce Irigaray
No full textLuce Irigaray is the Director of Research in Philosophy at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique de Paris. A doctor in linguistics and philosophy, a leading cultural theorist, an experienced therapist and author of more than 30 books on a range of subjects, Luce Irigaray truly is an interdisciplinary thinker. Thanks to support from the French Embassy in London, the Institute of Advanced Study, the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, the Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP), and the Departments of English and History, she visited the University of Warwick on 7 June 2013. A lecture and roundtable discussion was attended by students and academics from many different departments, forming questions and ideas across and beyond disciplines. The day concluded with a reception and animated conversations that carried on until late in the evening. Before leaving Warwick, Luce Irigaray kindly agreed to give an exclusive interview to ‘Exchanges’, some of which is included in this discussion of her ideas
And So The Judge Returns: Blood Meridian Workshop at the University of Warwick
No full textPulitzer Prize winning author Cormac McCarthy’s work has become required reading in literary criticism, and yet no syllabus appears to provision for the in-depth discussion his texts, particularly the 1985 novel, Blood Meridian: Or, the Evening Redness in the West, require. The ‘And So the Judge Returns: Blood Meridian Workshop’ at the University of Warwick emerged from the idea to provide a space that facilitates such a discussion. Designed to bring academics and non-academics of all ages together in one space, the workshop quickly developed from a small, Warwick-based event into a live-streamed and recorded international conference with a significant audience based in the United States.
The workshop reaffirmed the interest in the novel’s enigmatic antagonist Judge Holden and motifs such as the landscape and violence. Less traditional ideas of the judge were also discussed, such as reading the judge as fraud or as weary of chaos and perpetual violence. The workshop succeeded in creating a space to share thoughts and ideas and continue the academic discourse on the novel. Speakers included Dr Nicholas Monk and Dr David Holloway, both established McCarthy critics; Peter Josyph whose artistic engagement with McCarthy’s work and career his highly respected among critics; and Dr Dan O’Hara, expert in American Studies. Ronan Hatfull and Katja Laug represented the younger generation of McCarthy critics. Live-streaming also afforded insights into the academic discourse to the mostly non-academic online audience. The article provides a summary of the day’s events and the links to the edited recordings
The Lost Emerald Mines of Ecuador: Contrasting Patterns of Emerald Use in Native South America
No full textThe author presents evidence for a now-lost Pre-Columbian emerald source within the territory of present day Ecuador
Cerámica Buga: reevaluación
No full textEl término cerámica Buga fue utilizado por primera vez en un informe preliminar de la investigación llevada a cabo en el Valle del Cauca durante 1964 (Bray y Moseley, 1971). La mayoría del material encontrado ese año pudo ser asignado sin dificultad, bien a la fase Yotoco (1er. milenio D.C.) o a la subsiguiente fase Sonso (c. siglo 12 hasta la Conquista), pero hubo un grupo de vasijas que no encajó fácilmente en esta secuencia. A esta cerámica anómala se le dio el nombre de cerámica Buga. Se incluían varios ajuares de tumbas obtenidos en el valle del Cauca y en la cordillera Central, pero este tipo de alfarería aparentemente no se presentó en nuestras excavaciones en sitios de habitación, aunque, hay que admitirlo, es notablemente difícil de reconocer a partir de tiestos únicamente. Algunos elementos decorativos sugerían que la cerámica Buga estaba relacionada de alguna manera con la Sonso, pero en ausencia de material fechado obtenido en excavaciones controladas, la naturaleza de la relación era poco clara. Como medida provisional, la cerámica Buga se colocó en una categoría aparte, con la esperanza de que futuras investigaciones resolverían el problema de su edad y filiación cultural. Tuvimos cuidado en 1971 de no referirnos ni a una "cultura Buga" ni a una "fase Buga".
 
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